Title The homes of our ancestors, as shown in the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, from the beginnings of New England through the early days of the republic; exhibiting the development of the arts of interior architecture and house decoration, the arts of cabinetmaking, silversmithing, etc., especial emphasis being laid upon the point that our early craftsmen evolved from the fashions of the Old World a style of their own; with an account of the

social conditions surrounding the life of the original owners of the various rooms. By R.T.H. Halsey and Elizabeth Tower; illustrated with many elegant plates.

Publication Info.

Garden City, L.I., Printed by Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1925.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	749.1 HAL	Check Shelf

Edition	"First edition, after the printing of 201 de luxe copies
Description	xxvi, 302 pages mounted color front., illustrations, plates (part mounted color) portraits, map. facsimiles 26 cm.
Subject	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing.
	Architecture, Domestic -- United States.
	Architecture, Colonial.
	Interior decoration.
	Furniture -- United States.
	Art objects -- United States.
	United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
Added Author	Tower, Elizabeth.

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